REPLY TO 09/25/97 19:20 FROM [log in to unmask] "John Perkins": Re:
Resource Types discussion
John Perkins said:
>I understand what you are getting but my concern is that it may be
>unintentionally over complicating DC. This may not seem possible
>from the perspective of a person who is a cataloguer or used to MARC
>- for them the DC is way too simplistic already.
Ah, come on! ;-)
Despite the fact that the DC movement grew from a need for something
simpler than library-style cataloging for web information, it's the
mostly catalogers who populate the minimalist, keep-it-simple camp
and eschew overloading DC metadata with qualifiers and schemes for
de-coding element values.
Ricky
Avoid a remedy that is worse than the disease -- Aesop
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